Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born Frederick Bailey in eastern
Maryland, the son of an enslaved mother and an unknown white man.
In 1838 he escaped to the North and took the name Douglass. During
the next decade he became an antislavery lecturer, achieved
international fame with Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, the first of his three autobiographies, and began
publishing a series of newspapers. By 1861 he had become one of the
most famous orators in the United States. Douglass continued his
impassioned advocacy for freedom and racial equality until the end
of his life.
David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale
University and the author of Frederick Douglass- Prophet of
American Freedom, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Francis
Parkman Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. His other works include
Frederick Douglass' Civil War- Keeping Faith in Jubilee and Race
and Reunion- The Civil War in American Memory. Professor Blight has
written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New York Review
of Books, and The Washington Post.
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